News May 2017

Professor Vivien Schmidt, from Boston University and ULB, discusses European solidarity in challenging times as the opening keynote speaker for the first European Union in European Affairs conference on the topic “Controversial Approaches towards European Solidarity.”

The President emeritus of the IEE and Director of the GEM doctoral school considers that Emmanuel Macron's victory at the presidential election in France is not only a relief for all Europeans for the avoided catastrophy (Presidente Le Pen), but also a rational sign of hope that France can recover its role as dynamic factor for integration, like during the times of Jacques Delors and François Mitterrand.